Nicholas MacPhail

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower, Speeches of Eisenhower

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“The British were especially good at complaining, something the Dutch and Americans never did.”
― J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front